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The Daily Beast:
Trump's Small Biz Rescue Bailed Out Kushner's Family, Obama's Aides and Other Political Elite — The PPP program was designed to help small businesses. And it has. But some of the most connected figures in politics also cashed in. — When the Trump administration began implementing …
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POLITICUSUSA, ProPublica, The Intellectualist and MeidasTouch
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Gregg Re / Fox News:
Biden-founded law firm, as well as a company tied to Pelosi, received PPP funds, docs show
Biden-founded law firm, as well as a company tied to Pelosi, received PPP funds, docs show
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Breitbart and The Western Journal
Rachel Olding / The Daily Beast:
Billionaire Kanye West's Company Gets Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan From Trump Admin
Billionaire Kanye West's Company Gets Multimillion-Dollar PPP Loan From Trump Admin
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Raw Story, One America News Network, The Hill and Politico, more at Techmeme »
Associated Press:
Small business aid went beyond hard-hit companies, data show
Small business aid went beyond hard-hit companies, data show
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Associated Press, KTLA and Florida Politics
Ryan Tracy / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Releases Names of Biggest PPP Borrowers
U.S. Releases Names of Biggest PPP Borrowers
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Bloomberg
ICE:
SEVP modifies temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online courses during fall 2020 semester — WASHINGTON - The Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) announced modifications Monday to temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online classes due to the pandemic for the fall 2020 semester.
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Alison Durkee / Forbes:
ICE Says Foreign Students Can't Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite Pandemic
ICE Says Foreign Students Can't Attend Online-Only College This Fall, Despite Pandemic
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New York Times and Instapundit
CNN:
International students may need to leave US if their universities transition to online-only learning
The Daily Beast:
Former Melania Trump Confidante to Release an ‘Explosive’ Tell-All Before the Election — Another blockbuster Trump book is set to hit shelves next month and contain “explosive” revelations about first lady Melania Trump. — Following months of legal drama, threats, and public controversy …
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Raw Story, CANNONFIRE and Political Wire
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Emily Jane Fox / Vanity Fair:
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is Coming Out With Another Dishy Trump Tell-All
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is Coming Out With Another Dishy Trump Tell-All
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The Guardian
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Publisher moves up release of book by Trump niece
Publisher moves up release of book by Trump niece
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Washington Post and The Guardian
WTXL-TV:
FL Education Commissioner requires all Florida school districts to reopen campuses in August — TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has issued an executive order requiring all of Florida's public K-12 schools to reopen in August.
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Tallahassee Democrat:
Florida Education Commissioner mandates all schools to reopen in August — Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran issued an emergency order Monday, requiring all schools to open in the fall and laying out the requirements districts must meet to offer any sort of non-traditional remote instruction …
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Raw Story, The Hill and New York Post
Inez Feltscher Stepman / The American Mind:
What Will Become of Our Schools?
Adam Rawnsley / The Daily Beast:
Right-Wing Media Outlets Duped by a Middle East Propaganda Campaign — DOES NOT EXIST — Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda. — If you want a hot take about the Middle East, Raphael Badani is your man.
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Chris Whipple / Washington Post:
Donald Trump, the unbriefable president — Chris Whipple is the author of the forthcoming book “The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future.” — In the wake of reports that Russia offered the Taliban cash bounties to kill U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, the question arises …
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The Guardian
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Natasha Bertrand / Politico:
Trump's intel briefer breaks her silence — A career CIA officer explained in rare public remarks on Monday what she's learned about adapting intelligence briefings to the unique style of a particular “customer” — in her case, President Donald Trump. — Beth Sanner, a senior official …
Max Boot / Washington Post:
What if Trump loses but insists he won? — On his present trajectory, President Trump is heading for a whopping defeat in November. The Economist says there's nearly a 99 percent chance that Joe Biden will win more popular votes and around a 90 percent chance that he will win more electoral college votes.
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Jesse Wegman / New York Times:
Can We Please Pick the President by Popular Vote Now?
Can We Please Pick the President by Popular Vote Now?
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Politico, The Daily Signal and TheBlaze
CNN:
Everyday words and phrases that have racist connotations — (CNN)The words and phrases permeate nearly every aspect of our society. — “Master bedrooms” in our homes. “Blacklists” and “whitelists” in computing. The idiom “sold down the river” in our everyday speech.
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Breitbart
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
Florida teen dies after conspiracy theorist mom takes her to church ‘COVID party’ and tries to treat her with Trump-approved drug: report … Report typos and corrections to: [email protected].
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Florida COVID Victims, Fox News and No More Mister Nice Blog
David Roth / New Yorker:
How “Starship Troopers” Aligns with Our Moment of American Defeat — It has become clear, in these last decades of decadence, decline, towering institutional violence, and rampant bad taste, that American life is stuck somewhere inside the Paul Verhoeven cinematic universe.
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
Amy Cooper Faces Charges After Calling Police on Black Bird Watcher — Ms. Cooper was captured on video calling the police after Christian Cooper asked her to keep her dog on a leash in Central Park. — A white woman who called the police and falsely accused a Black man of threatening …
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Manhattan District …, Just The News, Patterico's Pontifications, Bloomberg, The Daily Caller, The Hill, ABC News, The Root and Axios
Adam Marcus / Retraction Watch:
Authors of study on race and police killings ask for its retraction, citing “continued misuse” in the media — The authors of a controversial paper on race and police shootings say they are retracting the article, which became a flashpoint in the debate over killings by police …
Andrew Kirell / The Daily Beast:
Fox News Claims It ‘Mistakenly Eliminated’ Trump Out of Photo With Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — WHOOPSIE — Fox News on Monday morning apologized for cropping President Donald Trump out of a photograph of him posing with convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell …
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Washington Post:
Trump plumbed new depths of depravity this Fourth of July — IT SHOULD be no surprise that President Trump has chosen to center his reelection campaign on appeals to racism and the demonization of his opponents. After all, that is what he did from the opening of his 2016 run with his invocation …
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Here are the governors who hurt so many, so needlessly — The Post reports: “Local officials in states with surging coronavirus cases issued dire warnings Sunday about the spread of infections, blaming outbreaks in their communities on early reopenings and saying the virus was rapidly outpacing containment efforts.”
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Twitchy, The Daily Caller and The Texas Tribune
E. Alex Jung / Vulture:
Michaela the Destroyer How a young talent from East London went from open-mic nights to making the most sublimely unsettling show of the year. — Michaela Coel is not a Christian anymore, but the spirit has never left her. The Bible is the reason she started writing.
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The Stranger
The Tennessean:
Charlie Daniels, ‘Devil Went Down to Georgia’ singer, famed fiddler and outspoken star, dies at 83 — Charlie Daniels, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame who sang “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” recorded with Bob Dylan and was a vocal supporter of U.S. veterans, died Monday morning after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke.
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TheBlaze, The Daily Caller, Fox News, Outside the Beltway, Deseret News and Deadline
Michael Barbaro / New York Times:
Listen to ‘The Daily’: Four New Insights About the Coronavirus — Hosted by Michael Barbaro, produced by by Alexandra Leigh Young and Austin Mitchell, and edited by Larissa Anderson — From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is “The Daily.” — Today: As infection rates break …
Donald J. Trump for President:
Joe Biden Does Nothing As Violent Crime in Democrat-Run Cities Soars — Americans got a taste this weekend of what Joe Biden meant when he promised to “transform the nation.” In the face of left-wing rioters, anti-American mobs, and tragic deaths in Democrat-run cities, Biden did nothing.
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POLITICUSUSA and The Gateway Pundit
Associated Press:
Appeals court deals 2nd blow to Trump asylum policy — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Monday blocked a key U.S. policy to deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country without first seeking protection there, dealing it a second blow in less than a week.
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Politico
Des Moines Register:
Chuck Grassley will skip the Republican National Convention for the first time in 40 years, citing coronavirus — Citing concerns about the coronavirus, U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley said he will not attend this year's Republican National Convention, marking the first time he has sat …
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Axios, NBC News, Radio Iowa, Washington Post, One America News Network, Breitbart, IJR, Talking Points Memo, The Hill and TheBlaze
Rukmini Callimachi / New York Times:
Breonna Taylor's Family Claims She Was Alive After Shooting but Given No Aid — A new court filing says Ms. Taylor, whose death set off protests, received no medical help after she was shot by the police. The coroner asserts that her injuries were so severe she could not have been saved.
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Raw Story and Law & Crime